Cultural History In Focus | “Female Figures from Aitutaki: Traces of Genealogy and Descent” by Michaela Appel

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Female Figure from Aitutaki, Munich State Museum of Ethnology, H. 58,5 cm, 190
Photo: Marietta Weidner

Female Figures from Aitutaki

Traces of Genealogy and Descent

by Michaela Appel

This article is generously provided by Michaela Appel.

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William Hodges, Review of the War Galleys at Tahiti, c. 1776, oil on panel, 24.1 x 47.0 cm. National Maritime Museum Greenwich (from: Hooper 2006: 13, fig. 1)

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Staff God, Rarotonga, Cook Islands, Munich State Museum of Ethnology, H. 73 cm, L. 900
Photo: Marietta Weidner

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Standing casket figure known as A’a, Rurutu, Austral Islands, H. 117 cm, British Museum London, LMS 19
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Female Figure, Aitutaki, Cook Islands [Hervey Islands. Figure of a goddess carved in the style of Aitutaki], H. 52.5 cm, British Museum London, LMS 35
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Fan Handle/God Image, Cook Islands, Atiu, L. 47 cm, British Museum London, LMS 78 (from Hooper 2006: 235 (213))
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District god from Mangaia, H. 91.4 cm, British Museum London, LMS 31
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Female Figure from Aitutaki, Munich State Museum of Ethnology, H. 58,5 cm, 190
Photo: Marietta Weidner

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Standing Figure, Rarotonga, Cook Islands,
H. 69.8 cm, British Museum London, LMS 169
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Taringarue, the superior god from Atiu, H. 40.6 cm, British Museum London, LMS 49
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Michaela Appel

Michaela Appel is a senior curator of South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Australia at the Museum Fünf Kontinente in Munich.

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Author | © Michaela Appel
Publication | Muenchner Beitraege zur Voelkerkunde, Vol. 15, 2012/2013
Year of Publication | 2014

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